Word: crafting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Viacom raised its offer to $10 billion in its friendly attempt to merge with Paramount Communications and gained an advantage over rival QVC by making its tender two days ahead of QVC's $10.1 billion offer. Meanwhile, Paramount announced that it would join Chris-Craft Industries to launch a fifth national television network in January...
...erotic play is nothing more than sex for sex's sake, an act empty of any real schematic significance. The coupling of Michael and Mona represents a storyline which Rice fails to address later in the novel, a real throwaway moment in the next. The elements with which to craft an appealing tale of the occult, then, are all present in Lasher--but they are unsubstantiated and rarely developed to any real degree...
...year. Within a few weeks, we must complete four essays (two drafts of each) and several smaller assignments. No sooner do we crank out four 10-to-12 pagers than the semester is over; our only certain improvement is our adroitness at fast writing. Instead of mastering the careful craft of revision, we are pushed into a cycle of the bi-weekly expos "all-nighter...
...sized record company do to top that? This: you can now get, on one CD, the first three records by the best American pop group of the 1980s. Get past the "new-wave" production--flat drums, brassy synths, quiet bass--and enjoy the startlingly syncopated, intricately intellectual pop craft of main guy Scott Miller, whose love of complication used to get in the way of lyrical clarity (and in the way of his collegiate love life, if you believe the lyrics he wrote) but never stopped him from writing a catchy song...
GUIDED BY VOICES Vampire on Titus CD/LP (Scat) It's tempting to write that GBV has had "eight years to perfect their craft," but the truth is that they've been great from the start. The basic GBV sound is 1967 British pop filtered through basement-tape-recorder grime, and within its confines they're the best, and the most versatile, there is. Each of their seven albums includes vocal harmonies from Revolverera Beatles, scattered outbreaks of pure punk, flat despair, soaring hopes, noises like ovens exploding (immediately followed by familiar hooks), wisps of pot smoke over seaswell chords...